This is the house that spite built.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

This plaque commemorates the call between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.

This hidden labyrinth offers walkers some brief peace of mind.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.